The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing--that is the final recourse of those who support punishment.
Friedrich NietzscheAgainst war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful.
Friedrich NietzscheOne cannot read the New Testament without acquired admiration for whatever it abuses not to speak of the "wisdom of this world," which an impudent wind bag tries to dispose of "by the foolishness of preaching."
Friedrich Nietzsche